The New York Times has a must-read article on how and why the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "seems to be bending over backward to be scientifically conservative" in its forthcoming assessment.

After representing coastal California in Congress and serving as director of the Office of Management and Budget and as White House chief of staff, Leon Panetta chaired the Pew Oceans Commission, which issued its recommendations a decade ago.

It says that thanks to farming and human activities, levels of the gas could double by 2050.
If this happens, it could reverse gains made to slow the thinning of the ozone layer and exacerbate global warming.

One of North America's largest mass extinctions during the 20th century [PDF] -- that has been the fate of the Coosa River, Alabama and it's diverse freshwater wildlife since the construction of seven hydropower dams.

What Rep. Boehner never tells anyone when he discusses the project is that he stands to personally benefit from its approval. Boehner is invested in seven tar sands companies that will benefit from the pipeline's construction.

Large dams may be one of the single most important contributors to global warming, releasing 104 million metric tonnes of methane each year.This estimate was recently published in a peer-reviewed journal by Ivan Lima and colleagues from Brazil's National

'The Rice/Penn State teams are now designing and synthesising new block copolymers for OPVs to optimise performance. "We are also carrying out more optical and electronic measurements to understand how charge separation happens in our materials and....'